The far from Posthumous Papers of a Language Camp…
Well…? Did you hear us? You should have done: the /Eurovision Song Contest/ was recreated on a slightly more manageable scale in Castle Schoenburg on Tuesday. Wild card Turkey won, if you really insist on knowing the result, singing Gwen Steffani’s /What You Waiting For?/ Guess where we were on Monday? Our record for a bilingual tour of Oberwesel now stands at 31 minutes.
Whilst this is a commendable achievement, we were nevertheless trying too hard, and breaking the record was ever so slightly completely unintentional. We will adopt a more leisurely approach next time. We’re beginning to suspect that Castle Schoenburg operates in an ice-cream-based economy; we seem to use enough of the stuff whenever we’re in town. The Wednesday trip took us to Castle Rheinfells, where we missed a turning in the underground tunnels. ‘Reverse!’ isn’t a command which elicits an immediate effect in a line of fifty students in a dead-end cellar, but it works. Eventually.
Herr Caspari (Yay! Don’t hold your breath, but we’ve finally managed to translate his job into English – he’s the castle warder) again masterminded this week’s /Ritterspiele/. This was another chance to hone our skills in archery, tactics in the field, crossbow shooting and jousting. Damsel wooing was also on the cards, but Federica was prepared to give her favours for as little as “viva Italia”! At open stage Princess Sheldon von Schoenburg was listening to /Tokyo Hotel/ in his tower (don’t ask – just don’t) and the theatre group slayed a dragon. We never found out why, but they did it with great bravery and courage. The two-weekers (we like the German: /die Zweiwochigen/!) went to Cologne on Saturday, climbing the cathedral, and visiting the chocolate factory.
They then went up in the world on Sunday, to walk along the top of the valley to St Goar, and then sailed back past the Loreley cliffs. The boat made it back in one piece.
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